Keith Brooking
Keith Brooking
Keith Howard Brookingis a former American football linebacker in the National Football League. He was drafted by the Atlanta Falcons in the first round of the 1998 NFL Draft and also played for the Dallas Cowboys and Denver Broncos. He played college football at Georgia Tech. Brooking was a five-time Pro Bowl selection with the Falcons...
ProfessionFootball Player
Date of Birth30 October 1975
couple four human might points
We have to keep our four points of pressure, and when we rush, it might take a couple of us to get him to the ground. He's a big human being.
badly beat earlier faced guys return time
Those guys beat us pretty badly when we faced them earlier this month. Now it's our time to return the favor.
behind crowd line nine offensive
To get nine sacks and with our crowd behind us like they were, that would fluster any offensive line in the league,
guess playing score
Yeah, I guess it's one of those things you look at and you say, 'I want to score a touchdown before I'm done playing football,'
crowd difficult gets hear offense run stopped tone
We set the tone defensively. We stopped the run and had them in second-and-long, third-and-long. When the crowd here gets into it, it can be very difficult for the offense to hear and to execute.
football notoriety teams televised winning
When you put winning football teams out there consistently, you get these nationally televised games. You get the notoriety that you deserve. That's the way it works, and that's the way it should be.
anyone business carries few good hardly knee knocked looked running saw sticks
When he's healthy, I've always said there's hardly anyone in the business better than him. He does so many good things. But I saw that knee brace ? it sticks out ? so you know he's not 100 percent. But he looked pretty good. He's running hard. They just wanted to get him a few carries and get him knocked around a little bit.
gave lack might outsiders played until
The outsiders might second-guess this, but we didn't quit. Until the very end, we gave it all out there. Give the Panthers credit. They played well. We didn't, but it wasn't lack of effort.
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We have to get some pressure on Jake, and we've got our work cut out for us in trying to keep a handle of (Pro Bowl receiver) Steve Smith. It's a big job, but if we execute the game plan our coaches drew up for us, we should be OK.